Susan Campbell

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This year, women must work until April 17 to earn as much as their male colleagues. To commemorate that, the American Association of University Women have released a report, The Simple Truth About the Pay Gap, which you can read here . I highly recommend you read the entire study, and pay attention to this: Equal pay is not simply a women's issue - it's a family issue. Families increasingly rely on women's wages to make ends meet. In typical married households, women's incomes accounted for 36 percent of total family income in 2008, up from 29 percent in 1983.

And that is from no less an authority than the L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's newspaper. You can read more here or here. And thanks, Daily Beast, for the link. And here I was willing to argue he was a fundamentalist Christian. If you'd like to claim Homer for your Own, True Church, make your arguments below.

Based on a host of factors including the number of places of worship, volunteers, and the amount of money donated to religious organizations, Men's Health has ranked the country's holiest towns. Godless Hartford, Conn., is way down on the list, but Colorado Springs -- home of the U.S. Air Force Academy -- is No. 1. Hartford? We should sin less. And thanks, Chrissy, for the link.

Because the next time they protest? If they, in fact, intend to continue their egregious protesting at mosques in Connecticut? I'd treasure spending some time with them. We could have a Bible Bowl throw-down. They could show me where it says in their Book that heckling and harassing Muslims is acceptable and I could counter with real, live scriptures. Other faithful people can show up and show them love. Me? I'm more the argumentative kind of Christian. And I'm not kidding.

See, this is how rumors get started. In the tricky game of Seven Degrees of Separation, TV faux-news host Jon Stewart has traced how The Real Faux News has among its bigger shareholders Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, who is also helping fund the Cordoba House, a community center/mosque near Ground Zero onto which Faux has showered negative coverage. Faux has suggested protesters of Cordoba "follow the money" -- always a good practice in journalism, unless your journalism is paid for in part by someone upon whom you're casting doubt, Stewart said on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

In East Haven, shoreline homes flooded, and a street where I once lived did, too. People were asked to evacuate and most did -- though at least one resident stayed on this street until after the worst of it, and then refused to leave when the police strongly suggested that happen. I now understand how the wind can knock over a weather-guesser. I joined a bunch of other adrenaline junkies at the town beach, where we were sandblasted by the wind until the police department came and said, through a loudspeaker, something along the lines of "What?

The St. Francis Hospital child sex abuse civil trial adjourned for the weekend just after 1 p.m. today at Waterbury Superior Court. This morning, testimony continued from John Doe 2, the plaintiff in the case, who was cross-examined by St. Francis attorneys, as well as his attorney, Michael Stratton. At issue is whether the hospital bears responsibility for the actions of their former head of endocrinology, George Reardon, who sexually abused hundreds of young patients under the guise of a human growth study.

If you're Republican, older, and less educated... ...you just might view Islam unfavorably, according to a brand new Pew Research Center for the People & the Press poll. Which isn't to say all old Republicans who aren't terribly well-educated don't like Muslims. According to the poll, Americans believe in religious freedom, but... You can read the whole poll here.